Adam Kredo writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a damaging new revelation involving the United Nations.
The U.N. internal investigation into whether its own staff at the embattled United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre was hamstrung and ineffective from day one, according to an independent U.S. review of the U.N. probe, congressional communications, and Western diplomats who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. The shoddy probe ultimately enabled the United Nations to claim that in 9 of the 19 cases under review, the evidence was “insufficient to support” staff involvement in the terror spree, a finding meant to exonerate the agency and discredit Israeli intelligence.
The U.S. probe—laid out in a previously unpublished December 2025 report by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) independent inspector general—found that the U.N. officials placed such tight restrictions on their probe, set an impossibly high burden of proof, and that the findings were ultimately useless. The American conclusions about the U.N. probe are privately leading Western donor countries to “reconsider future financial commitments” to UNRWA, which has come under increasing pressure to clean house after the USAID inspector general discovered more than 100 staffers served as Hamas combatants or participated in Oct. 7, according to one diplomat who spoke to the Free Beacon.
The “major deficiencies” in the U.N. internal probe—outlined in a report Congress requested from the USAID inspector general, a statutorily independent law enforcement entity separate from the largely defunct USAID—have also led powerful Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) to formally demand the United Nations explain what many observers increasingly see as a “cover-up.”
The U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) originally investigated 19 UNRWA employees in 2024 and produced a report that concluded the evidence against nine of those individuals was “insufficient” to prove they participated in Oct. 7.
